You sort the wedding! British sprint canoeist leaves big day to bride to focus on Olympic gold

One of Britain's brightest Olympic prospects has told how he has left his fiancee in charge of planning their wedding so he can concentrate on winning a gold medal.

Dubbed the 'Usain Bolt of the water', sprint canoeist Ed McKeever has already been selected to represent Team GB in the 200 metre category at this year's games.

Focused: Ed McKeever is distraction free going into the 2012 Games

Having already recorded one of the fastest-ever times over the distance (34.2 seconds), the 28-year-old from Bradford-upon-Avon, won gold at the World Championships in 2010 and topped the podium twice at the 2011 World Cup series.

Over the last three years McKeever has fine-tuned his training by 'trial and error', and has become one of the quickest sprint canoeists in the world.

But his intense training regime means he has to rely on his fiancée to manage other areas of his life - namely his marriage.

McKeever is engaged to Anya Kuczha, a 26-year-old PE teacher who he met while studying accountancy and finance at Kingston University.

The couple plan to tie the knot on September 22 at a church in Beaconsfield. McKeever said it will be a large gathering as Anya is from a large Polish family.

Ready: McKeever at his training base in Windsor

'I am not doing too much juggling,' said McKeever. 'I am not doing any accountancy work until after the Olympics so that is not an issue at all.

'With the wedding stuff, I will get asked my opinion on things but whether that gets taken into account is another thing.

'Anya has quite a big family so I don't think it will be small but we haven't planned numbers yet.'

McKeever's plans of a quiet family wedding may be short-lived if he wins gold six weeks earlier at Dorney Lake.

He could be Team GB's last gold medallist of the Games, but he dismissed any suggestion his success is assured.

Asked about the comparison with Usain Bolt, McKeever does not see it. 'He's tall, I'm short,' he said.

While any attention post-Games is unlikely to go to his head, even if he does win gold. "I have a clear plan regardless of what happens," McKeever added.